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Sophia Perennis
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Subjects
History of doctrines, Mental illness, Orthodox Eastern Church, Psychiatry and religion, Psychotherapy, Religious aspects of Mental illness, Religious aspects of Psychotherapy, Spiritual healing, Mental Disorders, History, Spiritual Therapies, Ancient History, Medieval History, Therapy, Religion and Medicine
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Early church, ca. 30-600

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Anthropological background : the human composite
Body and soul
Spirit, soul, and body
Insanity due to somatic problems
Insanity of demonic origin
Forms and causes
Christian attitudes
Treatment
Insanity of spiritual origin
Mental and spiritual illness
The nosology of sadness
First cause : the frustration of desires
Second cause : anger
Unmotivated sadness
Demonic activity
The nosology of acedia
Treating sadness
Treating acedia
A most singular kind of folly
The fool for Christ
The fool for Christ, the illiterate
The simple and the innocent
A simulated folly
Scriptural foundations
First motive : humility
Second motive : detachment from this world
Solitude
The status of stranger
Poverty
Third motive : charity
Spiritual presuppositions of foolishness for Christ
A call from God or a personal vocation approved by God
An already highly accomplished spiritual life.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Hillsdale, NY

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Dewey Decimal Class
616.89/14
Library of Congress
RC455.4.R4 L3713 2005

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL3400979M
ISBN 10
159731045X, 1597310611
LCCN
2005015423
OCLC/WorldCat
60516834
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250875
6623881

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